The first photo is of a little stream that ends over the side of the cliffs of moher (the good part!!) smashing into the sea bellow. You wouldnt think that literally a few feet behind me was the edge of cliff! Absolutely amasing. I almost got pulled off the side of the cliffs a few times.

The second is one i spent a little bit of time trying to get the framing right. It was taken in a hollow on level rocky ground with the incoming (fast incoming) tide. I had intended to get a slow motion blur effect on some trickles of water coming through, unfortunately the tide ran away from me. Go figure!

A few weeks back I read an instruction on how to configure my camera (350D) to shoot in RAW. I’ve been hearing about RAW a lot recently as i dig deeper into the possibilities with different formats and styles in photography. The first main difference i found is, RAW is HUGE!! Using a 2GB Compact Flash card i could store over 650 photos in JPEG large format. This is considerably reduced to 169 photos in RAW. Interesting enough though, when shooting RAW on the Canon 350D, you might notice you have duplicate images when importing. This is because the built LCD display screen cant display RAW files, it needs a smaller format, hence makes a duplicate processed image.

The best thing about RAW is of course, you can do all the processing when you get onto your computer. I use photoshop CS3 (the best program in the world!). When you open the RAW file (the extension on my images is .CR2, a canon RAW format), you get presented with a new window, well, it was new to me. This new window is basically the manual replacement for all the in-built magical processing that pretty much determines the cost of your camera! Most of these settings are available for JPEG but you really do get a serious amount of control when mastering the colours, tones, shades and lights and pretty much every bit of visual information of the photo!

Shown above is a image of Norm Power (my new business partner – more on that later) playing with Tame in the Zoo underground, kilkenny. Now, you might notice there a few pictures of this amasing guitarist, thats simply because the guy really likes to pose on stage!

I had a bit of fun playing with this photo during work. Reducing mid-tones, increasing highlights and shadows to give the dark sinister effect. I hope you like it!

More studio work! An arrangement of bark on a white background. Some lighting tweaks in Photoshop, levels and contrast to white out the background and exaggerate the details in the back.

A yes, the nicking of flowers on the way home from Dunnes. Again with the box studio, this time with a black t-shirt as a back drop. Slightly tweaked colours and shades in Photoshop to give a little atmosphere.

Playing around again over the weekend with my box studio. I really need to invest in some different coloured bulbs and maybe one of those bendy desk lamps! Anyway, this is some back and large pebbles i picked up outside in the courtyard.

This is part of a trial series. I’ve set up a miniture photo studio with backdrop and stage in… an Apple Macbook box!! Its perfect really, pure white which makes for easy editing in photoshop. Once in photoshop, i just tweaked the colour settings a tad and desaturated everything.

I began making a theme for this, based on races and non-natural selection (i think i was drinking ribena at the time) where only the best is picked. Strange goings on in the mind really! Alas, heres a bunch of grapes. Yum!

I was working on series of pictures to do with daffodils. Alas, all attempts of live shots failed. Strangely enough though, through patience and time i waited and worked with them in different ways right up until the point they were beginning to die. Now, for daffodils bought from dunnes stores that was about a day or two!!

Again this photo had was taken in my homemade photo studio box. Saturation was up’d on the camera considerably and was then altered during editing. Again a slight tweak with colour to nuetralise the tones. I like it, i think it would suit a japanese restaurant menu. Do they have daffodils in japan?

I took this photo on the UL grounds some weekend back. Finally decided to dig it up and play around. Pretty much just added and duplicated layers applying different colour ajustments and level ajustments.

This is a slow motion shot taken on an escalator. The blue lights allong the side took my fancy! I placed the camera on the moving ground and just set a 30 sec exposure at f22. I think it gave some really nice effect.

Taken at the cubes in Sandyford. Nice low lighting with contrasting blue neon light. I’ve been waiting to play with this area for a while. I will be adding to more like this soon.